LXXXI. LOGANIACEiE. 1023 



i. FAGRiEA, Thunb. 

 (After Dr. J. T. Fagrseus.) 

 Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla-tube usually expanded at the top into a campanulate 

 throat, the limb spreading, often oblique; lobes 5, rather unequal, imbricate 

 in the bud. Stamens 5, usually shortly exserted. Ovary more or less 

 completely 2 or rarely S-eelled, the placentas often not meeting in the centre, at 

 least at an early stage ; ovules several to each cell or placenta ; style single, with 

 a peltate stigma. Fruit succulent, indehiscent. Seeds immersed in pulp ; 

 albumen copious ; embryo very small. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves coriaceous. 

 Flowers usually rather large, in terminal raceme-like or corymbose panicles, 

 rarely reduced to a single flower. Bracts small, with 2 bracteoles under the 

 calyx. 



The genus extends over East India, Ceylon, and the Indian Al-ohipelago. Of the 2 Australian 

 species, one appears to be common in the eastern portion of that area, the other, as far as 

 known , is endemic. 



Leaves broad, rounded at the base. Flowers in clusters or cjmes along a 

 simple elongated terminal rhachis 1. F. racemosa. 



Leaves narrow, contracted at the base. Flowers in a short sessile terminal 

 cyme 2. F. Mtielleri. 



1. P. racemosa (panicles raceme-like), Jack in Boxb. Fl. Ind. ed, Wall. ii. 

 35; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 367. A tall shrub or small tree, quite glabrous. 

 Leaves oval-oblong or rarely ovate, shortly acuminate, rounded at the base, 

 mostly Sin. to 1ft. long, on petioles of from J to lin., the stipules forming a 

 short interpetiolar sheath or ring. Flowers of a dirty yellowish- white, in clusters 

 or cymes along the simple rhachis of a raceme-like terminal nodding panicle, 

 which is pedunculate between the last pair of leaves, and varies from 2 or Sin. 

 to above 1ft. in length. Pedicels thick, 2 to 3 lines long. Calyx-lobes broad, 

 1 to 1^ line long. Corolla-tube about fin. long, the throat broadly campanulate, 

 the lobes broad, 8 to 4 lines long. Ovary with 2 or rarely 3 parietal placentas, 

 often short in the bud, but meeting in the centre and completely dividing the 

 ovary into 2 or 3 cells after the flowering is over. — A. DC. Prod. ix. 29 ; F. 

 morindifulia, Blume in Rumphia ii. 32. t. 79, and (analysis only) t. 73. f. 2 ; 

 Mus. Bot. i. 169 ; A. DC. Prod. ix. 29, and probably also several of those 

 described as allied species by Blume, Mus. Bot. i. 169, 170 ; F\ Thwaitesii, F. v. 

 M. Fragm. ii. 137. 



Hab.: Not uncommon in most of the tropical scrubs. 



Extends over the Indian Archipelago to the Malayan Peninsula and the Philippine Islands. 

 Wood of a yellow colour, close-grained, and hard. — Bailey's Cat, Ql. Woods No. 284b (given 

 as F. Mtielleri, Benth., in mistake). 



2. P. Muelleri (after Baron Mueller), Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 368. A glabrous 

 tree or shrub. Leaves opposite, crowded at the ends of the branches, elliptical- 

 oblong or lanceolate, shortly acuminate, contracted into a petiole, thick, obscurely 

 veined except the prominent midrib, 3 to Bin long. Peduncles terminal, short, 

 few-flowered. Pedicels slender, 7 lines long. Calyx-lobes orbicular, thick, 

 rather above 1 line diameter. Corolla yellow, the tube about 6 lines long, 

 expanding upwards ; lobes broad, obtuse, 3 to 4 lines long. Fruit red, under 

 ^in. diameter, ripening 1 or 2 seeds but with 6 to 8 unenlarged ovules to each 

 cell or placenta. — Gardneria fagrcfcwea, F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 130. 



Hab.: Boekingham Bay, Dallachy ; Evelyn, near Herberton, J. F. Bailey. 



5. STRYCHNOS, Linn. 



(A Greek name for the Solanum.) 



Calyx 4 or 5-lobed. Corolla with a short or cylindrical tube and 4 or 5 



spreading lobes, valvate in the bud. Stamens 5, inserted in the tube,- the anthers 



usually exserted, Ovary 2-celled, with several ovules in each cell. Style 



